Posted on 09/22/2013 9:59:08 AM PDT by cunning_fish
WASHINGTON, September 20 (By RIA Novosti) – A US Senator and leading voice on the tangled and thorny topic of international child adoption said this week Russia is doing “a great disservice to itself” by raising parentless children in institutions, but expressed little hope that Moscow’s ban on adoptions of Russian children by American parents would be lifted anytime soon. "Every doctor knows how harmful institutional care is to children. It affects their emotional, mental, and physical development," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, herself the mother of two adopted children. "What I really want to say to the people of Russia is, 'Get your kids out of institutions and get them back into the loving arms of parents, relatives, or families that will love them and care for them,'" she told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in an interview on Thursday. She also offered a scathing comment about Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s child rights commissioner, a strong champion of the ban on US-Russian adoptions enacted by Moscow in January and an outspoken critic of the American adoption system. "He doesn't want to hear the truth," Landrieu said. "He's an ass. You can write that: He's an ass!" Her comments came after a Capitol Hill press conference to announce new legislation authored by Landrieu and others to help find families around the world for children without parents. It also streamlines the international adoption process for American families and develops a system for reviewing international adoptions in the US. Landrieu made the comment about Astakhov the day after he said Russia has a system for providing training to adoptive families and is prepared to teach Americans how to create and maintain such a service. “America has a troubled system,” Astakhov said.
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Sadly, so very true.
Yeah, it’s much better to suction out the fetus before he or she has a chance to become a serial killer.
Horsesh*t.
“...that you, and all your fellow travelers...are all...A herd of ASSES!”
Ranging in color from pale pink to flaming RED!
no dipshit, it is better to have the child and keep it
Really? But handing children over to perverts is alright by her? And what about the return-to-sender ‘parenting’ that led to the ban on Americans adopting Russian children?
About 20 Russian adoptees have been murdered by their US adopters. None of the killers were known to be honmsexuals. Most of the killers were white heterosexual evangelicals and fundamentalists. http://nobodyisforgotten.blogspot.com/
Well, a lot of them are probably cellulite white, but we don’t really want to think about any of that.
I applaud Russia's commitment to take care of their own children. If group homes are done correctly, it can be a good environment and more stable than is foster care in the US. Landrieu should SHUT UP and worry about the problems the US faces.
If she was looking into mirror she would’ve seen the real ass, or maybe she was. For anyone especially a women to voice an opinion that Russians, especially mothers, don’t care about children is the top of self righteousness. What is she doing about the parent less children being paraded on TV to raise money? To use pity as a political expression is an abomination not fitting for an elected USA government official.
Mary Landrieu is a tool of the multi-billion dollar a year adoption industry. If she had her way we’d all be adopted—at at a high price.
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